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TH strikes (out) againTherapeutic hypothermia (TH) vs. normothermia did not improve survival or neurological outcome in pediatric drowning victims. Infection and other complications were not worse in the TH group.

In comatose survivors of out-of-hospital pediatric cardiac arrest due to drowning, hypothermia did not result in a statistically significant benefit in survival with good functional outcome or mortality at 1 year, as compared with normothermia. High risk of culture-proven bacterial infection was observed in both groups.